AfD is the most popular party in Germany among those aged 14-29. All left-wing parties in decline
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AfD is the most popular party in Germany among those aged 14-29. All left-wing parties in decline
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by SidWholesome
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How is that may I ask?
The others don’t utilize TikTok and the others don’t offer simple and catchy solutions…
actually, most popular party is “I DON’T KNOW”. People that have no clue who would they vote for.
Online-Befragung von 2.042 Personen im Alter von 14 bis 29 Jahren, Erhebungszeitraum 8. Januar bis 12. Februar 2024.
We really need not-so-extremist right wing parties in europe, this is a vacuum that doesn’t need to be filled by neo nazis.
Wow, it seems that the opinions of the people on this subreddit dont reflect public opinion in Europe at all.
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Regarding the decline of “all left-wing parties” should it maybe be added that BSW, who did not exist in 2023 but now have come in on about 5%, are a split from Linke and generally considered to be left-wing. It of course doesn’t make up for the overall decline, but is at least one type of left-wing party that currently are increasing; a left-wing that is far-left on some questions and right-wing on other.
14 years old?
I never understood these changes in opinions. Wtf does the AfD offer to these people? Do they genuinely believe that things like housing costs or inflation will be effectively managed by the far-right?
As an Italian I would like to say: no, our alt-right governments haven’t solved any issues, they made them worse. And we have actually tried two different ones, one with Salvini in 2018 and one with Meloni now. This government in particular is also subtly restricting the freedom of protest and the freedom of speech.
If you are right wing, please consider voting a more moderate center-right party. Both extremes in the political spectrum never brought anything good in history.
The most dumb thing is that many people here (I like in a village) vote the AfD as a “Protestwähler”. Meaning they just vote for them out of protest because they don’t agree with any other party to 100%..
Which is even more dumb than voting for them out of political believe…
When you can’t afford living, of course there’s a change in your political views!
The left isn’t performing the traditional role of the left anymore. In fact, they’re supporting an Islamist demographic who are radically opposed to all liberal, leftwing ideals.
Mainstream parties: goes against what the people want and starts mass immigration anyway.
Also mainstream parties when people vote for the immigration critical party: *surprised Pikachu face*
Same thing happened here in Sweden. None of our mainstream parties have aaaaany idea why the Sweden Democrats currently have 20,5% of votes. They are really confused and can’t understand why.
I think that there a two reasons for this. First, it is about how the far right has a very good presence on social media and they are better at making propaganda for younger people and they offer quick fixes for complex problems. It also helps that the likes of TikTok or Twitter are promoting right-wing talking points. Second it is about the fact that Grune and SPD are in govt. and thus prone to do worse in polls. Sometimes parties in power do tend to do very well in polls. BSW split from Die Linke and thus it is obvious that they will experience a fall in polls.
The problem is that some on the left are quite oblivious to some problems the young people face and for some talking points like migration, there is a growing split between what some on the left want and the reaction of the population. Thus, all over Europe, migration is a valid talking point but the left does not offer a good alternative to limit migration and integration. Plus that housing is a big problem and the left still haven’t found a good position to be popular.
I believe that for both topics, the left can offer a good alternative if they would not be so affraid of the extremist wing. Integration and accepting migrants should be a topic about democratic values that the left had always fought for and for housing, it is rather easy to paint this as a failure of the free market and rentiers.
Did you really think that endless immigration of people with “problematic” cultures (to say the least) would have had a different result?
well that happens when you ignore issues until they become too big to handle.
14-29 must compete with 14-29+ from abroad. Refer to „Heinsohn: Söhne und Weltmacht.“(2003) for details. What is a blessing for the industrial complex can be a curse for a nation or at least the society.
Im moving to Germany to spite the English
To be fair, most of the loses for greens and SPD go to the i don’t know part. And people don’t see FDP as a good option anymore (which is partialy for blocking where they can, even though they are calling themself progressive, partialy because people want more rigth wing policies from them, which will not happen in a coalition with two bigger left-leaning parties).
So the only two options for young people who tend to vote to the right are AfD, CDU and nothing
Almost as if the younger generations have to deal with the most shit from immigration, getting robbed, threatened etc. I understand the shift towards right wing parties. I wouldn’t say afd is a good choice though, but I understand why it happens.
Guess which party is very active and focused on social media.
Und wie viele davon Würden ihren faulen Arsch hoch bekommen, also von denen die Überhaupt wählen DÜRFEN, um zur Wahlurne zu gehen anstatt sich mit ihren Zuhausies die Birne zu Brei zu Saufen oder so?
Without trying to bash any young people ,but every online poll so far shows the same results and there are studies that also explain why: Polls have the power to move and change voters behaviour by themselves. So every single time someone has seen a poll with ‘leader is…’ this influences actually how people answer and vote.
When asked for a party or a politician many just iterate what comes to mind fastest. Which is currently no surprise as AfD has been very active in social media especially TicToc. That age group spend most of their time there currently. So the fastest thing in their mind is most probably whatever was lately on their radar in the media they consume.
Since TicToc doesnt allow for really long statements, it is the perfect medium for extreme messages. Those are usually complex topics cooked down to simple and simplified slogans.
Understandable
You can’t call any of the parties left wing really anymore, aside from “DIE LINKE”. We’ve had a massive overall shift to the right, throughout all parties.
To be fair, if you are on any Social media, at least 50% of the content is pushing either the AfD or the other extremist party that split off from Die Linke (BSW). Interestingly, these are the parties that advocate for peace with Russia and keep getting funding either directly or indirectly.
So yea, until the West finds a way to shut down foreign interference, we will continue to see a massive rise in support for these parties amongst groups vulnerable to Social Media influence.
Meanwhile the Green Party was the most pro-Ukrainian, and thus also the primary target for a lot of negative campaigns targeted specifically at their two figureheads, Habeck and Baerbock.